Emilia Frances Noel (9 February 1868 – 19 March 1950) was a British botanist, author, and illustrator. Born in Kensington, she was the youngest daughter of Hon. Henry Lewis Noel and granddaughter of

Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough Charles Noel Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough (2 October 1781 – 10 June 1866), known as Charles Edwardes until 1798, as Charles Noel between 1798 and 1823 and as the Lord Barham between 1823 and 1841, was a British peer and Whig politician. Ear ...

. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She traveled internationally, and is noted for her writings about and collection of Kashmir plants; her journals are now in the National Archives. She was elected a Fellow of the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

in 1905.

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* 1868 births 1950 deaths People from Kensington Emilia Frances 19th-century British botanists 20th-century British botanists Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford British illustrators British women biologists British women writers 19th-century women writers {{UK-botanist-stub